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Dot Earth Blog: Kids (and Teachers) in Peril, From Oklahoma to Oregon
Why do communities fail to secure the buildings that house their children against momentous hazards?
nytimes.com (21 minutes ago)
Climate Change Will Increase Heat-Related Deaths In NYC, Study Says
Summer in the city could get a whole lot more miserable in the coming decades, according to a new report. Warming weather could make summer in the city deadly in the next few decades, according to a study published this week in Nature Climate Change. By the 2020s, New York City will see 22 percent more heat-related...
popsci.com (44 minutes ago)
Xbox One launch: Why Microsoft's latest console will make everyone sit up
There's more to come at next month's E3 expo but the early signs are good, according to T3's Mark Mayne
mirror.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Power Wheels Resurrected In Racing League
Power Racing Series revs up DIY competition at the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire. Continue reading →
discovery.com (1 hour ago)
Xbox One launch: Microsoft unveils console that will "transform the 21st century living room"
The eagerly-awaited device has finally been revealed - and Microsoft believes it brings simplicity to the video games, television and entertainment world
mirror.co.uk (2 hours ago)
DNews: Holographic Fetus & Other Incredible 3D Tech
3D scanners are enabling us to see all kinds of things we've never dreamed of witnessing before. And as Trace and Anthony show us, it's only going to get more
discovery.com (2 hours ago)
7 Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History
See a short history of the most powerful tornadoes to touch down on U.S. soil.
discovery.com (2 hours ago)
How Moore Tornado Compares to 1999 Twister
Violent tornadoes hit the same spot twice -- west of Moore, Oklahoma.
discovery.com (2 hours ago)
Scientists Reveal The Cause Of The Irish Potato Famine
One of the most deadly pathogens in human history has been pinpointed. It's widely acknowledged that Phytophthora infestans, a sort of fungus-like pathogen also known as potato blight, was responsible for the mid-19th-century potato famine that reduced Ireland's population, through death and emigration, by nearly 25...
popsci.com (2 hours ago)
Why Are Tornadoes So Hard To Predict?
People in the path of a tornado typically get only 10 minutes of warning. Why? Sixteen minutes before a tornado touched down in Newcastle, Okla., yesterday, the U.S. Storm Prediction Center sent a warning to the area. That heads-up was longer than the average warning time of 8 to 10 minutes. Why are tornado...
popsci.com (2 hours ago)
Can Space Tourism Save Earth?
Opening spaceflight up to the masses could help spark a global conservation ethic that stems the tide of environmental destruction on Earth.
discovery.com (3 hours ago)
Fake Forest Converts Sunlight Into Energy
In a process that mimics photosynthesis, this artificial forest soaks up light and uses it to generate oxygen and hydrogen.
discovery.com (3 hours ago)
Video introducing the Xbox One: Meet Microsoft's new games console
See what the future of Xbox is with Microsoft's announcement in Seattle
mirror.co.uk (3 hours ago)
DNews: First Cloned Human Embryos Yield Stem Cells
Scientists have cloned a human embryo, and from those clones, extracted stem cells. It's a first that could transform medicine. But as Anthony tells us, the
discovery.com (3 hours ago)
Rock Out With Paper and Pencil Instruments
Sketch It! Play It, part of Intel's Start Making! initiative, makes electronics less intimidating for young tinkerers. Continue reading →
discovery.com (3 hours ago)
Now, robot accepts objects from people in a natural way
Disney researchers have developed a new humanoid robot that is able to recognise when a person is handing them objects and predicting where to make the hand-off.
indiatimes.com (4 hours ago)
EXPOSED: Taking Astronomical Pictures
Ever wanted to take dazzling photos of the night sky? Here are some essential tips before you start slapping your DSLR to the back of your telescope!
discovery.com (4 hours ago)
Reconstructing The Oklahoma Tornado From Start To Finish, In Videos
This is what real destruction looks like. The devastation wrought by the mile-wide, EF-4 tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., and south Oklahoma City yesterday is really difficult to put into words. You could start with the huge path of destruction, more than a mile wide at places, that wiped entire...
popsci.com (4 hours ago)
How Many Sodas Did You Drink? Your Hair Doesn't Lie
A new test shows how much corn syrup you've gulped over time. Continue reading →
discovery.com (5 hours ago)
Megapixels: A Parasitic Worm Infects An Ant
In the jungles of Belize last January, entomologist Alex Wild noticed something odd about the trap-jaw ants passing through his outdoor insect photography class: They all had shrunken heads and swollen abdomens. A day after making the observation, Wild and his students came upon an ant with a worm bursting out of...
popsci.com (5 hours ago)
Why Are There No Black People On The Jetsons?
One of the most common questions I hear about the original 1962-63 run of "The Jetsons" is where are all the people of color? Scan any crowd shot in the first season of "The Jetsons" and you'd be hard pressed to find any non-white faces. Were the animators at Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s all racists? That seems highly...
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
Our Effect on Earth's Water Cycle Is Both Fascinating and Terrifying
Initially, access to water defined where humanity could grow and develop. But now the opposite is true, and we're the ones directing the future of our global water system. Watching that transition unfold is as sobering as it is stunning. This three minute video, created by Felix Pharand for the opening of the Bonn...
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
DNews: Shocked by 1 MILLION Volts of Electricity
ArcAttack plays Tesla Coils like 3rd-graders play plastic recorders. Each 500,000-volt tower can be programmed to play any song live while someone sits in a
discovery.com (5 hours ago)
DNews: Homemade Sub Lets Anyone Explore the Ocean
The Undersea Voyager Project is bringing ocean exploration to EVERYONE. The non-profit organization built a submersible in a garage and wants to give anyone
discovery.com (5 hours ago)
Hockey Puck-Shaped DIY Robot Makes Debut
The open-source, hockey-puck shaped robot is open for tinkering by amateur roboticists. Continue reading →
discovery.com (6 hours ago)
Cold Fusion Machine Gets Third-Party Verification, Inventor Says
The E-Cat strikes again. A well-known promoter of cold fusion technology-who's been demonstrating his latest invention here and there over the past two years-has announced that an independent third party has verified his machine works. That is, it creates a large amount of energy in the form of heat, far more than...
popsci.com (6 hours ago)
Tornado Victims Recount Race to Survive
Residents who survived the Oklahoma City suburb tornado describe racing for shelter only to emerge scarred and bloodied on a moon-like landscape.
discovery.com (6 hours ago)
Neanderthals: Extinction by BBQ?
Humans may have treated Neanderthals no better or worse than the other large ice age mammals they hunted, ate, and helped drive to extinction.
discovery.com (6 hours ago)
Inside The World's Most Ambitious Eco-City
Why would a petro-state erect a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian desert? To change the world. At first glance, Masdar City appears a mirage. From a distance it looks like a single multicolored building, standing lonely on the horizon. Part of the illusion is due to the city’s strange...
popsci.com (6 hours ago)
10 of the Year's Most Beautiful Science Images
Who knew an artificial neural network could be so pretty? The winners of Princeton's annual science photography contest, Art of Science, were announced a few days ago. And boy, are some of these images beautiful. Every year, a jury of Princeton professors gets together to hum and haw over the thousands of images its...
gizmodo.com (8 hours ago)
